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Message: <blockquote data-quote="nishan2007" data-source="post: 4053413" data-attributes="member: 26963">A Surface-to-air-missile (SAM), an anti –aircraft missile was recovered by the Trincomalee Police during a search operation in the Thoppigala area on Monday, police said.They said the missile was a SAM-14 type and had been hidden in a hollow of a tree. Police believe the LTTE cadres fleeing the area during the Thoppigala battle might have discarded the missile.The recovery was made after interrogating an LTTE suspect arrested a few days ago by the Trincomalee police. A special police team which was dispatched to the area recovered the weapon.Weighing nearly three kilogrammes, the weapon can fire at an object at an altitude of 600 to 6000 metres from the ground.During the military operation in the Thoppigala area a few years ago, the military found a similar missile left behind by fleeing LTTE cadres.<img src="http://www.dailymirror.lk/DM_BLOG/ArticleImages/3pusjs3npr0bb455sml4qn55_01.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /><img src="http://www.dailymirror.lk/DM_BLOG/ArticleImages/3pusjs3npr0bb455sml4qn55_SAM-missile-data.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></blockquote>

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